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Now for bargain sales In coronation
robes.
Please tell me, Is my crown on
straight T
The weather man must have a good
stand-in with the ice man.
Could it be that our Mlstah Johnson
got lost In the coronation Jam?
It was the irony of fate that Carrie
Nation was born in Kentucky.
A good use to make of the recall
would be to apply it first to the joy
rider. This is a good time for those con
gressmen to put their speeches in cold
storage.
It may yet become necessary to sub
mit this Qates-Carnegle war to arbi
tration. Our friends, the grocers and butch
ers, are plainly losing their pull as
rain-makers.
How would you like to be the ice
man and make the people pay any
price you askT
A word of caution to autolsts: Do
your speeding in Omaha and keep the
line money at home.
"The spirit of prosecution is in the
air,," remarks Jim Patten, pit prophet,
as he sails away to Europe.
Hurry and complete the count of
last Fourth's victims, so we may get
started on the new roll call.
Mr. Bryan vehemently denies that
he is the dictator of the democratic
party. Well, then, who Is?
Perhaps Mr. Morgan will decide to
buy a few of the court costumes as
souvenirs of the coronation.
Senator Lorimer voted against the
direct election of senators, and yet he
has done so much to promote it.
It is hard for a man to swallow a
woman's idea of economy when it
takes the form of breakfast .hash.
The lifting of the lid In Lincoln and
the lifting of the crown in London
rightly divide the honors of the day.
"Bail from Baltimore," la the new slogan.
Baltimore Sun.
Wouldn't "Sail to Baltimore" be
Just as good?
What would we , do if the king
should decide to attach our ambassa
dor. Sir John Hays Hammond, to his
staff?
The popularity of the quadrangle
in college campuses shows the grow
ing tendency toward a square deal in
education.
The real test of Insurgent courage
Is to be found in the fact that the
"originals" in the senate numbered
Just thirteen.
New Thoughters assure us that
poetry stimulates thought. Yes, but
what about thought stimulating a per
son to commit poetry?
A Cleveland man who acted the part
of a mermaid in a public fountain was
pronounced crazed by the heat. Some
folks ould consider him a very sane
man.
Lieutenant Governor Morebead has
at any rate not found the responsibili
ties devolving upon him as temporary
chief executive so onerous or distaste
ful as to sour him on the job.
Still, the presence of our Irish
American patriots was most noticeable
by absence from the convivial gather
ing of cltlsens of British birth or
descent in honor of King George.
"The American envoy will wear an
ordinary dress suit with knee breeches,
silk stockings, low shoes and crush
hat. "Dispatch from the coronation.
Why omit to mention the Monocle?'
Senate Complications.
Senator Penrose may be correct in as
serting that the coalition of demo
crats and Insurgent republicans in the
senate is a rope of sand that will not
hold long, but nevertheless it must be
seen that this new complication puts
new dangers In the wsy of reciprocity
for which congress was convened In
extra session. Division among re
publicans on the tariff question
threatens to open tip revision all long
the line, for the democrats niny be de
pended on to seize every possible op
portunity to make political capital
against the republican admislstratlon.
The reciprocity bill may yet be
saved without mutilation, but that it
is Just now seriously imperiled is
undlsgulsable, for to work out some
method by which its supporters may
be brought together, and the measure
kept free from riders tacked on for
political effect, will bo no small task.
The reciprocity agreement and pro
posed amendments to it, the demo
cratic free list, the wool tariff and
finally the threat of general tariff re
vision, have been thrown into an in
discriminate heap In the senate, and
the hand that can untangle and
straighten out this will havo to be a
deft one.
What the next move and final out
come will be Is so uncertain as scarcely
to warrant attempt at prediction.
Surely it does not warrant a democrtlo
delirium, no matter how much grati
fication democratic leaders may draw
from their unexpected windfall. It
should be remembered that republican
Insurgents have steadfastly proclaimed
devotion to the principle of protection,
which the democrats, although willing
to accept the benefits of protective
duties, have professed to reject That
is why a combination of these elements
must be unstable.
Americans at the Coronation.
While a popular English novelist Is
In New York criticising American girls
for lack of sentiment, American
women are dazzling the eyes of
royalty with their resplendent coro
nation gowns and American men
are setting the courts of all Europe
agog with their lavish outlay on pri
vate residences for London's great fes
tival. What is all this but sentiment?
The dispatches say that the future
rulers of all Europe were represented
at this saturnalia of fashion. Yet of
the foreigners the American woman
was the best dressed and the American
man the best housed, and among the
most conspicuous of our men was our
prince of world finance, J. Plerpont
Morgan. When sentiment can find Its
way to the hearts of such supposed
materialists we rather think there Is
room for doubt that our American
daughters have none of this emotion
in them.
Americans may feel that those who
represented them at Westminster ab
bey were not thoroughly typical of
American life in all its aspects, but
they cannot say that their envoys fell
short of what was required, of them.
The competition, it should be remem
bered, was not in democratic habits.
Our representatives in this great in-.
ternational Olympic were contesting
for a different sort of prize. They
were competing with crowned heads
on crowned head territory In a royal
game and won. Now, what more was
there for them to do If our women
outdressed the women of any other na
tion and our men outspent the men of
any other nation? Surely this is- a
matter of national congratulation, in
stead of carping criticism.
It was great team work our players
did, too, and that with seemingly little
practice. They simply got together a
little while before th) play began and
went in, beating Britain on her own
grounds, together with all her neigh
boring monarchies. We think this a
real achievement. Now, when our side
comes back, why, of course. It will not
be puffed up over its triumph, but will
take oft its royal suits, put on every
day working clothes and go right
along in the same old way here at
American game. The laugh is on
royalty, not usi
Heant and Harrison.
According to the Hearst newspa
pers, which claimed the credit for re
electing Carter H. Harrison mayor of
Chicago, that city is "wide open" to
gamblers, "murderers run at large,"
and that, too, with "apparent immu
nity," and the police are either too
tolerant" or too "inefficient" to
change conditions. The only conclu
sion Is that Mayor Harrison has not
done what Hearst's newspapers as
sured the people he would, do if given
a fourth bite at this favorite official
pie of his. In other words, the people
who voted for Carter Harrison on
Hearst's voucher a majority of Chi
cago's voters are being made to re
alize the bunco game played on them.
Of course, it was folly to expect that
a man whose previous record in the
office commanded for him the support
of the wide-open elements would do
anything to prevent the town from
running wide open. It must be an
other case where people chose to be
fooled, when they rejected a strong,
clean man, free to carry out a nro-
gram of reform, and took in his place
a man who was known for his alliance
with and reliance upon the powers of
privilege and perquisites. Hearst and
his newspapers, of course, knew both
men, so they cannot now plead the ex
cuse that they, too, have been de
ceived. In previous campaigns these Hearst
papers had opposed and bitterly de
nounced Harrison and their support of
him last time was simply taken as the
result of a political bargain. Now if
that bargain has been broken, if the
tfnavstii ha f.lln.i in A onvlhtnr h
promised to do, he must expect to feel
the same lash as before. In politics as
elsewhere, the cut generally comes
back.
An Unanswered Question.
When taxpayers of Omaha are asked
to vote an $8,500,000 mortgage on
their property they are entitled In all
fairness to have all the Information
on the subject that Is available.
Yet one vital question has always
been side-stepped by those who can
answer it, and who ought to answer
it before the fate of the proposed
water bonds is settled.
Are you, Mr. Water Board, going
to pay the overdue hydrant rental,
amounting to upward of $300,000, out
of the proceeds of this bond Issue?
Or will the hydrnnt rental bills have
to be met with an additional special
tax levy?
If the $8,u00,000 in water bonds
that are asked will not square all ac
counts and give us all projected im
provements and extensions and stop
all litigation, how much more money
will be needed and how is it to be
raised?
Why So Silen Now?
Only last fall, when' the Question of
using tho paper ballot instead of the
voting machine was raised by local
republican candidates who desired to
avoid being inundated by the straight
party lever vote for Dahlraan, our
amiable democratic contemporary Imi
tated the antics of a madman in its
violent denunciation. To quote its
language, the attempt to throw out
the voting machines was "a disgrace,"
it was "a base plot to defeat the pop
ular will as it would like to express
itself at the polls." Its effect would
be "to pave the way for fraud and
chicanery." To discard their use
would "have $50,000 worth of voting
machines, bought with the pooplo's
money, to prevent fraud and scandal
thrown on the Junk heap."
It Is given out that for the impend
ing special bond election the vote is
to be recorded not on the voting ma
chine, but by paper ballot. Yet not
a word of protest from those who
yelled so loudly last year. Is there
any essential difference in voting on
three bond propositions mortgaging
our property for nearly $9,000,000
and choosing between a bunch of
offlee-seekers? If the machine is the
only safeguard against "fraud and
chicanery" and the paper ballot is a
device "to defeat the popular will as
it would like to express, itself," why
Is the ditching of $50,000 worth of
voting machines, "bought with the
people's money," not denounced as a
scandal now as it was only last Oc
tober?
"Why so silent, Mr. Democratic Or
gan? Why no indignant outburst
against this diabolical plot? Why not
appeal, to some honest and fearless
juage to come to the rescue of the
menaced rule of the people?
Stopping Land Grabs in Mexico.
The new governor of Chihuahua has
very wisely declined to adopt the de
ceptive cry of "Mexico for Mexicans"
as the slogan of his campaign for re
construction, and his action tallies
with that of the national government,
both before and after the revolution.
He appreciates the indispensabllity of
American and other capital and enter
prise in the development of his Btate,
where vast amounts of foreign money
have been invested. He proposes not
to close the doors to this outside help,
but yet to close It to certain objec
tionable foreign monopolies that have
exploited the opportunity to I secure
concessions through political machina
tion. If this policy can be maintained
it will surely work to the advantage
of Chihuahua and all Mexico and
fairly to the rights of the Individual
and competitive companies.
The individual Mexican has nothing
to fear from a rejection of the "Mex.
ico for Mexicans" policy. It Is a mis
nomer at best There are two essen
tial reasons why it is not safe. First,
there is far more of industrial oppor
tunity in Mexico than the native Mex
ican can embrace; and, second, it
would not be to bis political or eco
nomic advantage to try to embrace it
exclusively if he could. He needs the
association and financial assistance of
the foreigner, Just as every other un
developed country needs them. It is
not surprising, however, that In the
strain of a crisis, such a cry should
have been aroused by foreign en
croachments through special Privileee.
particularly when the intelligent Mex
ican could not help but see that this
special privilege came through un
scrupulous political dealing or cor
ruption. This cry was uttered, chiefly,
against the rapacious foreigners who
threatened to gobble up the best of
valuable Mexican land. It Is gratifying
to know that the new state authorities
of Chihuahua have taken a firm stand
aga,lnBt that sort of thing and are to
be entirely supported by the national
government. This was one of the
abuses that figured largely In the rev
olution and one whose correction was
promised even by Dias before he found
he would have to retire.
Twenty-five per cent more exacted
for ice in Omaha than in Des Moines,
St. Joseph, Kansas City and Denver.
All the ice companies here raise the
price at exactly the same moment and
by exactly the same amount. But, of
course, there is no ice trust and no
agreement between the Ice companies.
Governor Harmon refused to obey
Mr. Bryan's order to "stand aside," so
Mr. Bryan has been compelled to
shove him aside, hlmsttlf. He an
nounces: "Harmon Is cot a presiden
tial possibility on the democratic
ticket." Yet Mr. Bryan says he Is no
dictator.
Well, if it produces that effect on
our amiable democratic contemporary,
It would probably require a ticket to
the insane asylum If the democrats
should by accident capture the whole
works.
What Mlaht Have Been.
Washington Star.
W. J. Bryan would be a captain of In
dustry If he had shown anything like the
attention to the steel business that he de
voted to silver.
No Dissenting? Voire,
Chicago Record-Herald,
The Kansas supreme court has enjoined
three subsidiary companies of the Standard
OH trust from combining to restrain trade.
No member of the court seems to hav
dissented.
Look Uooil In llonnil Figures.
Baltimore American.
The country will stnrt the fiscal year
with a balance of $W.O00,000. Although In
dividually this news will not do us much
good, still It ran give us the pleasant feel
ing that collectively, as a nation, we are
In the multimillionaire class.
Lobbying; Professors Disciplined.
Springfield. (Mass.), Republican.
The regrets of the Nebraska university
have disciplined several professors for al
leged lobbying at sessions of the state
legislature. One professor wns anxious to
have the university removed snd two oth
ers sealously urged the abandonment of
an allied medical department. It does not
appear that there was anything flagrant In
the action of the men. but the situation of
a university professor suing for favors
from members of the legislsture was
rightly regarded as objections!. It Is to be
hoped that this Is not a case In which the
regents merely wish to do the lobbying
themselves and seemingly It Is not.
TWO CORON ATIO Ill'KDEJfS.
Millions for noyal Show In London
and Calcotta.
Cleveland Leader.
The cost of crowning King George to th
British Imperial treasury will be from
II. 50,000 to $1,500,000. It will amount to
about the year's earnings of 5,000 average
British wage earners, taking them as they
come, skilled and unskilled, the kingdom
through.
There will be some offset to this tax,
even for the wage earners of the kingdom.
Many visitors will bring a great deal of
money to spend In England, attracted by
the splendid show which is being prepared.
This Inflow of gold from other countries
will stimulate business In many lines and
some share In the benefits enjoyed will
fall to the lot of the worklngmen and
women of the country.
Next winter the king Is to visit India
and hold a magnificent durbar or state re
ception in Calcutta. He will receive th
homage of the Indian princes and mag
nates as their emperor.
The cost of this ceremony is expected to
be about $5,000,000. It will take nearly or
quite four times as much money as the
coronation In England. And In India It re
quires the pay of ten wage earners to equal
the wages of one workingroan In England.
The durbar at Calcutta will absorb th
equivalent of the yearly earning of 200,000
workers, more or less, If all of the money
has to come from the Indian government's
treasury. Great Britain may pay part
of it. tf .
In India there will be no Important in
flow of foreign sightseers spending their
gold,, freely. The native princes wjll do
most of the spending and they will wring
the money out of the scanty store of their
subjects.
There Is another striking contrast. The
United Kingdom Is essentially a democracy
In respect to the real power of the nation.
Large sums are taken from the public
treasury to pay for the coronation because
most of the people want It done. The
Hindus do not wish to celebrate the crown
ing of an alien ruler, but they can't help
themselves. J
Is It surprising that a Japanese states
man, contemplating the vast Inverted
pyramid in Hindustan which rests on
fewer than 100,000 white masters who hold
820,000,000 aliens In their grip, declared that
England was only a sojourner In India?
People Talked About
n.
New York's "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
One of the West Point cadets graduated
last week was Thomas J. J. Christian, a
grandson of the late confederate General
Stonewall Jackson.
John McLure Hamilton, artist, of Phila
delphia, has been commissioned by King
George V to paint the picture of the cor
onation scene in Westminster Abbey.
Mr. Bossut, a farmer of Ft. Usurges,
France, ha Just bad his thirtieth child
baptized. He-has been married three times
and has had seventeen sons and thirteen
daughters, twenty-two of whom are living.
The whole village escorted th father and
mother to tb church and witnessed the
baptism.
Mrs. Ann Margaret Holmgren, the pioneer
suffragist of Sweden, has Just celebrated
her sixtieth birthday, on which occasion
she received congratulations from almost
every part of the globe. Mrs. Holmgren Is
said to have formed more than seventy
suffrage societies In a single season as a
result of speeches mad la seventy-five
towns.
At the borne of Jerry 8. Newberg of
East Dlxmont, Me., th following .men
met recently: Jonathan Woodman, aged
S3 years; Jerry Smith, aged M years;
George Lewis, aged 84 years; John Davis,
aged 79 years. Their combined ages was
341. The eldest of the four, Mr. Woodman,
aged M years, recently traveled alone
through Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Assurances are given out by th pro
moters of the bread bakers' trust that th
concern will not invade th Interstate com
merce field, each baking unit of th mer
ger being confined to Its local territory.
Emphasis Is laid on the object, namely, to
produce better bread and sell at low prices,
consistent with dividend expectations. PTire
phllanthrophy mixed with th dough may
prevsnt blowhole In th loaf, but cau
tious patrons should maintain the In
aalslUve attitude of Mlasourlana.
k (CI GZORQC
In Other Lands
14e Lights What la Troas.
plring Among th Stear and
rar BTaUoss of . tas nanu
Th tumult and th shooting has sub
sided In "dear old London," King George
has his crown on straight and the "morn
ing after" feeling Is gradually wearing off.
Pen pictures of the crowning event, stripped
of superlatives, rlaoe the parade and
the investiture in the top class of
royal exhibitions, far surpassing In realis
tic pomp th best efforts of his majesty,
King Ak-Sar-Beii. This should not provoke
surprise. The merry monarch of the corn
belt frolics on the Job for a few days and
adows the multitude to run the machine
the rest of the year. King George has a
steady Job. and his crowning Is the one
public blowout of his life. Only on such
occasions are Britishers permitted to re
paint the red spots thrown hither snd
thither on the map of the world. Resides,
the king represents the biggest combine
on the gloho, having s population of 33B,CO.
000, and a territorial area of ll.4tn.000 square
miles. In population China alone exceeds
the British empire, but Is far outclassed
in territory. British America, Australia
and South Africa, In site ranking In the
order named, are self-governing colonies,
exercising the full autonomy granted to
nations. These constitute the chief units of
Ihe empire and with the parent British
Isles contain one-fourth of the empire's
tots! population, kin In race and language.
The remaining three-fourth struggle for
existence In India. leaving the latter out
of the present Jubilation, inasmuch as a
special crowning will take place In Calcutta
In September, there Is an ample showing
of members In and outside of London to
hand the king and queen a tumultuous
send-off and give free rein to the chesty
feeling of empire builders.
A recent dispatch from Teheran an
nounced that William Morgan Shuster, an
American citizen, now treasurer general
of Persia, has been granted by the Per
sian congress "absolute control of every
department of finance. Including the col
lection and disbursement of all revenues
in the custody of the treasury." Four other
Americans are assisting tho treasurer' gen
eral In rehabilitating the finances of a
practically bankrupt country, which, with
less than 10,000,000 population, 2,000.000 be
ing nomadic Arabs, Turks, Kurds and
Leks, has a debt, of about $30,000,000, more
than half of which Is due to Russian In
terests. Persia under young Ahmed Mlrxa,
who Is 13 years old, and a rather Irregular
national assembly, or congress, Is tangled
up with three great powers Germany, who
is trying to build an extension of the Bag
dad railroad to Teheran: Great Britain,
which in October last Infringed uuon Per
sian sovereignty by landing marines at
ingan, on tne rersian uuir, and almost
simultaneously threatened to take posses
sion of the southern caravan routes, and
Russia, which still has her troops In the
nortnern section of the empire. In the
neighborhood of Tabris, Ardebel, Reeht,
and Khasvlne. These rival Interests msde
necessary the selection of a disinterested
American. Mr. Bhustor is a native of
Washington city. H helped to put the
Cuban customs on a sound baaia. For five
years he was collector at Manila, and after
tnat a member of the Philippines commis
sion. Rising oost of living in Germany strikes
the military . establishment with great se
verity. Inexplicable rule and customs pre
vent officers from economising In any di
rection, and th only hope of relief from
threatened bankruptcy Is Increased sal
aries. General Field Marshal von der Quits
discusses the problem in th Deutsche
Revue. He undertakes to prove that of a
commanding general's pay of 30,000 marks
(17,500) a year only half Is available for
the support of his family. The rest goes
for the maintenance of the dignity of his
rank. A general's Income, General von der
Colts explains, would be quite sufficient
for a private citizen, but a commanding
officer or a high civil official cannot live
as he pleases. He must keep a carriage;
he must give dinners, dances and recep
tions; he must head all subscription lists
that are offered him by his subordinates
for various purposes; his wife must do
her share In maintaining their social status,
and noblesse oblige an officer or a civil
official cannot count his pennies as a
business man would. He must act with a
certain seigniorial liberality. The general
concludes that unless salaries are increased
In all branches of the service, army offi
cers must withdraw from social life.
The spirit of the British colonies de
picted by Kipling In "The Lady of the
Snows," "Daughter am I In my mother's
house, mistress in my own." was cieariu
manifested at the imperial conference
wnicn preceded th coronation ceremonies
In London. Th premiers of all the self
governing colonies of the em Dire vw.
called together to discuss Imperial affairs
witn a view to harmonizing conflicting
policies and establishing closer relations
between the distant colonies and the home
government It was the third conference
of the kind, and proved as fruitless as Its
predecessors, much to the disgust of Im
perialists. There were numerous heart-to-heart
talks between, the leaders of the
home government and the colonial nmi.r.
on the foreign relations of the empire. The
deepest secrets of the foreign office were
laid on the table fr Inspection. The col
onial premiers were profoundly impressed
by this display of confidence. General
Botha of South Africa, the premier of the
new federation of South African states,
has said tiiat this step was "the begin
ning of a new era In the history of the
empire." But beyond this and expressions
of like import, the colonial premiers gav
no Indication of a desire to subordinate
local policies to imperial needs. London im
perialists give rein to their chagrin by
saying that the colonies have the "swelled
head."
"One by one, slowly, but non the less
surely," reports an American consular
agent In Mongolia, "things old and vener
able are pushed aside, destroyed and dis
regarded by trade, progress and other re
lentless instruments of change. The latest
Is the attack on the Asiatic
means of which the best tea has been
brought from China across the Great Gobi
desert of Central Asia to RuaaU
en route three high mountain range. This
picturesque transportation by camel will
soon give away befor th automobll. A
line, running at regular Intervals, has al
ready been established and two weeks' time
is cut off." Another Indication of th
awakening comes from th land beyond
Kyber Pass, where run th defile through
inaia mountains into Afghanistan. Once
a week a camel caravan goes In and comes
out. But oat of the forbidden land have
come the news that the amir of Kabul Is
installing a telephone system and putting in
clectrio lights, and that he has bought a
motor and is going to open a motor mall
rout of his own from Peshawar to Kabul.
On top of this is th announcement from
China that a postofflc has been opened In
forbidden Lhaasa; that a courier rout is
to be established, and that wireless station
or to be opened In Thibet.
NEBRASKA'S NRW ARItOlVAVT.
Will Ihe Reatrlre lllparaehate Out fly
Ihe l.larola Device-r
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Because Beatrice, Neb., Is close to Lin
coln we expect great things of Prof Fow
dcr of the Beatrice High school, who i
i!urs that hs has sotted t'ie prohl m if
flln. That I a land et high flights and
many successful descents. l"p from Lln
eolrt hss three t'mes g ne a machine whl h,
though never reaching Its chstn goal, ha,
whenever forced by storms and sdveiss
winds, to come down, msde a safe and re
cure landing without hitting the ground
hard enough to Jar the av'a'or. It mav be
of the gonitis of th prop' thrreabo:;t t
j fly lilnh and. when thf-y must come down.
I i ii i oi nniy in sareiy nut wtin an eae
and grace to charm all beholders.
Prof. Powder cal's his machine a "dlrW-
I Ible blparachute," In the terminology of
science, hut he adds, vry sensibly, we
think, that It can be called the "safety
airship" for short. The Llnco'n device has
not been patented, for the reason, perhaps,
Ihnt the daring Lincoln aviator has never
feared competition. He '-as, a"cordlrgly.
left his Invention ope. -o Infringement,
and Trof. Bowder's prospectus Ind'catcs
that he has studied the I.lnco'n machine
and has now patented some of Its best
points. "If the engines miss, the pritb"lle-s
stop, or the rudders hresk." he says, "the
machine falls at the rate of three feet per
Sfcond snd can be glided by mere move
ment and motion of the avlat r's bo ly."
This hss been done by the Lincoln device,
and more than once. One of the engines
"missed" In IMS, but with both the pro
pellers snd the rudders working, an east
landing was made. At the seoond fllsht,
In ir00, the engines missed and the rro
pellcrs stopped, but still the descent left
the aviator very much alive. In isos, not
only did the engines miss and the pro-
pellers stop, but the rudders were broken.
yet. In spite of such triple disaster, the
machine has since been ooming down so
slowly thst those who want most to see
It smashed are moved to profane Impa
tience because It Is coming down at much
less spred thsn three fret rr s?cnnd. They
fear that next year It will land again with
out a Jott.
"My machine works In all kinds of
weather," say Prof. Sowder. So doea the
one at Llnooln. "Wind," says the pro
fessor, "either upward or downward gusts,
do not trouble It." This Is cloirly an In
fringement, or would be If Lincoln had eve
taken out letters patent on Its plan for
withstanding "downward gusts." "Equi
librium," the professor goes on, "Is auto
matic and capslslng therefore Impossible,
as the center of mass Is below the center
of buoyancy." So It is with Prof. Bryan,
who Is his own center of buoyancy, and
has towered above the center of mass In
his machine. These ldess of Prof. Sowder
are not new. Their chief merit Is In the
fact that they have been well tried and
well proved within a short distance of Bea
trice. The Idea of "two Independent en
gines" ' was tried at Lincoln In the first
flight, the two engines being fused In ac
tion but not In substance. The one called
"populist" worked well. It was the one
called "democrat" that "missed." The one
new thing offered by tho Beatrice professor
Is "bringing aerial navigation within the
reach of Inexperienced persons." The Lin
coln ship has made three ascents and three
descents, but It has always been In the
hands of one experienced air navigator.
Great as Is our faith In the aerial genius of
Nebraska, Prof. Sowder will have to show
us another man who Can go as high and
come down as easy In one, two, three order
as Prof. Bryan of Lincoln. ,
HOW TUB CREAM WAS SKIMMED
Who Shared In Combine "Economic
of Operation."
Indianapolis News.
In the Sugar trust testimony it was
shown that James H. Post, president of the
National Sugar Refining company, had
served for eleven years In that capacity
without any salary. There was nothing
In the evidence tending to show that Mr.
Post took special credit to himself for
his unbought devotion to the company.
Probably he would have said nothing
about It had he not been questioned along
this line.
But, though he did not receive a salary,
he did receive something else. In 1903 the
late H. O. Havemeyer gave him $MO,O0O
of the common stock of the National Sugar
Refining company because' he "never re
ceived a salary as president." Post got
options on several companies which It
was desired to buy. The trust issued
38,500,000 preferred stock to take up these
options, and then Issued $10,000,000 common
stock to Post. .This was done by the board
of directors, which Post admltes that he
probably controlled. Later this $10,000,000
of stock was turned over to Havemeyer,
and out of It Havemeyer gave Post $MO,000.
When asked why this was done. Post said
that Havemeyer said that "It was for my
serving as president of the National with
out a salary." So the1 man did get a
salary, and a liberal one, though it was
not called by that name. '
Nor was this all. B. H. Powll, Son A
Co., got a commission of 1 per cent for
handling the business of the trust. This
amounted to about $120,000 a year. Of this
amount Mr. Post, as one of the partners
In the Howell firm, received from $30,000 to
$60,000. So on the whole h seems to hav
been well paid. A gcod deal of th trust
philanthropy Is of this sort, as, for in
stance, when Havenmeyer himself, ' who
controlled th trust, though he had only
$30,000 worth of stock, had the director
vote to him, througb Post, $10,000,000 of th
stock issued in connection with the pur
chase of Independent companies. On all of
this, of course, the people had to pay
dividends. Also it was necessary to im
pose tariff duties - high enough to enable
th trust to make a "reasonable profit" on
its wutered stock. So Mr. Post got no
"salary," and so he was liberally psld for
his self denial In refusing to recelv a
salary. There is many a man whdv would
forego his salary If he could be so hand
somely puld for doing without It
Too Busy with Their Ilaal.
Philadelphia Record.
Th farmers of the United States would
have a hundred times mora advantage In
the establishment of a parcels post system
than possible disadvantage as a result of
the adoption of the Canadian trade agree
ment, even if the arguments of opposing
trusts were soundly based. Tet there was
no special favorable demonstration made
by farmer at th paroel post hearing's.
The real farmer are attending to their
farming. They do not demonstrate. They
ar not opposed to reciprocity, and they
ar in favor of a parcels post, but they
keep on with their digging and rest sat
isfied In th ballet that their actual repre
sentatives will duly represent them. Let
us hop.
Not H4 as I'le tared.
Boston Transcript.
After all It appear that th "disinclina
tion of American youth for army life" ha
been exaggerated, for while there ar fifty
two vacancies at West Point, twenty-three
ar expected to be filled at the July exam
ination. Then ther will remain but twsnty
nln appointments to b filled by senators
and representatives. Th battalllon will
have very full ranks In th autumn, and
th impression to the contrary seems to
have been derived from a misunderstanding
of the tennlnalogy in us at th military
academy.
UNCLE SAM'S HIGH CREDIT.
New York World: The government's Issue
of VK.Oe.ouo In 3 ler cent Panama bonds1
was oversubscribed three times. Offici
al Washlutton say the prices prove that
American credit Is the hlulirst In t tic world.
There has been no doubt about the credltl
of tlie American government for more
thanl
fif.en cars.
Boston Transcript: Vnc' Sam want it
botrow I.M.tM.H'O to be used In building th
Panama canal and the nol offt'V him
liiS,000,(W. This Is au emlwrrassment of
riches, but It is also an exhibition of pop
ular confidence In the government and Its
credit, more especially as these ranama
bonds are not available for national bank
circulation and the subscriptions com
from the plain people. ,
'iingticld Itcpubllcon: It Is a matter of
exceptional Intercut from the fact that this'
If the tnst tunc since the outbreak of the1
civil Var that the fulled suites govern-
nient has sold bonds solely on their In- '
vestment merit oi without the aid of th
banknote privilege. We, therefore, for th
first time In fifty yeara, have a true -measure
of the government's credit In the
general loan market. How high tills credit
Is limy bent be Judged by the fact that
British 2!j, per cent consols are selling to
Meld the buyer over 3 per cent, while
these United States bonds are going at a
price to yield leas than 3 per cent.. That
the younger country ahould catch up with
and even pass the financial center of the
old world In point of cheapnei-s of capital
for government use Is a fact as gratirylng
as it Is surprising.
vrs ami inwx of foiiti-ks.
J
Rnve the American commoner era..
cern. It would not be long before all the!
"""" or "e country would be comeredl
by a few men, and then what wonM th -J
dii.ary fellow do? It as a hideous thing to!
contemplate. A wise man would anv nw
and then that It was only a few generations
from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves, but the
distressed commonalty would nnt n..-
The Vanderbllt. Gould, Sage. Rockefeller
nnd other vast accumulations of capital
would keep on growing vaster.
oreat fortunes have a wv t
away when the master hand that built
them up Is dead. It Is a rare character
that builds a vast fortune cull it
thrift lueU ...i.i.H - i ':
-' j i iTiuunctinensi or Wn.w
JOU Will fortune mill., i- .1
u unusunii
quality. Infrequently It Is found so closJ
together as father and children. It is a
trait so rare that It does not usually occur
twice In the same family. Fortune spend
ing Is a commoner trait. It Is much easier.
Any dullard can dlaalpate a million dollars.
It does not require keen wit to be extrava
gant. Great fortunes are parceled out
among heirs and the heirs of holrs and
dwindle until necessity forces the rich
man's descendants .back intn n-.
men's .class. Out of this class another for
tune maker crops up, flourishes, grows fat
and proud, dresses In purple and fine linen,
feeds on porterhouse steak and drive
around recklessly In an automobile. Death
overtakes him, as all of us, and in a few
generations his descendants are again dlK
ging dltchea. And so It goes over and overi
It Is the history or many families. Money!
Is very fluid In average hands. j
SMUJNQ REMARKS.
on h .trT 1? le?e '""'Pints on the
sands of time," said th man who is
earnest but not original. ,
"Very good," replied the absent minded
criminologist; "but thumb prints are noW
considered more reliable. "Washington
Beggar Please, mister, a dim for a poor
blind man.
Old Gentleman But you are only blind
In one eye.
Beggar-All right make it a nlckl then.
. "Al?. th9 witnesses lying, low In tha
"No; on the contrary, they are dol
ome tall lying." Baltimore American.
Tou ought to see th charming bungu-1
nJ.he..Jonn.on8 hav ot over in Hyde
?Mkt L,MKr,VLa";"n" ony na
story high, but the room are Jut M oon,
yenlently arranged as they can be. and
there s the neatest, tastiest little vlraua
running around three sides of it you ever
saw." Chicago Tribune.
Newff!cl-Wn7hoiild I give you a
Job? Tou worked for mv opponent
him!''-CpJckUreI Th't' wnat Quewed
He fduring the anat)-Well. If you want
to know It, I married you for your monwy.
She I wish I could tell as easily what t
married you for. Boston TYansortpt
"Well. I have come to call rn your fathe
and ask him for your hand."
un, i am so glad!"
"lr. vnn oil., .I.J .
i certainly am; you know I hav bear
taking lessons In first aid to the Injured.'
Houston l'ost.
"He chews tobacco."
"T thlnlr vnn .- .l--k- T V-..-. .
seen him indulging In th habit." i
rNoiiner nave i.
"Then how do you know?"
"Ha arvued with m- f v. -1 ? -ft, v... - i
an endeavor to convince me that It was not
a filthy habit." Houston Post.
"Yes, we ar going to the seaside again.
All but father. Father says he must liaT?.
a rest."
"Going a-flshlng. eh?" ,
"No. He's going to stay at home."
J'
"Of course, you are In favor of reclprooit
with Canada."
"I surely am." replied the superficial ob
server, "if it will provide any way of my
getting rid of the Canadian quarters I coi-
lected at a New England summer resort.";
Washington Star. '
A DAY IN JUNE.
Jamea Russell Lowell.
And what so rare as a day In June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then heaven tries earth If It be in tune.
And over It softly her warm ear lays.
Whether we look or whether w llnten,
We hear life murmur, we see It glisten;
Every clod feels a stir of might,
- An li stinct within It that reaches and
towers.
And, groping blindly above It for light
Climbs to a soul In grasa and flowers;
The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys;
The cowslip startles In meadows green.
The buttercup catches the sun in It
chalice.
And there's never a leaf nor a blade too
mean
To be some happy creature's palace;
The little bird alts at his door In tha sun,
Atllt like a blossom among the leaves,
And lets his illumined being o'errun.
With the deluxe of summer It receTves:
His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings.
And the heart In ber dumb breast flutters
and sings; .
H sings to the wide world and shs to her
nest
In the nic ear of nature which sng Is
th best?
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